NEW YORK — Ignore the dejà vu. Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games” is nearly a scene-for-scene, word-for-word remake of the 1997 original. He even used the blueprint of the original house to make the new one.

“There were certain shots and angles I would do differently, but I didn’t have to add anything,” Haneke said. “Adding something small, like a different location, was just as honorable. It’s the same film with different circumstances.”

Leaving his native land of Austria for America, Haneke has found the target audience: people who appreciate “barrel down” cinema and understand how life has been made consumable. The results could be called masochistic.

“I mean, in order to do a shot-for-shot remake you have to be masochistic at some point,” Haneke said. “It was very challenging.”

The premise is terrifyingly simple: a well-to-do family, the Farbers, goes on vacation to their summer lake house on Long Island. The family is comprised of George (Tim Roth), his wife Anna (Naomi Watts), their son Georgie (Devon Gearhart) and their dog Lucky.

Because the film was a shot-for-shot remake, casting played a crucial role in pre-production. Haneke agreed to the project under one condition: Naomi Watts would star.

“Like Isabelle Huppert in ‘The Piano Teacher,’ Naomi Watts had the necessary vulnerability to play the part,” he said.

On the drive to their summer home, the family passes by neighbors Fred and Eva and two innocuous preppies, who are awkwardly called “relatives.”

One of those lads, Peter (Brady Corbet), stops by the Farbers and asks for some eggs for Eva. Trying to be helpful, Anna fetches them for him, but asks how he got onto their property. He coyly mentions the hole in the fence — pointed out to him by Fred.